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FlatLaf 1.0 is here 🎉 😀
Finally, after one and a half years of development, forty 0.x releases, 32
merged PRs, 191 closed issues and hundreds cups of coffee. 😄 It
took longer than expected. Looking back at all the features already implemented,
we could also name it 3.0. 😁
FlatLaf is a modern open-source cross-platform Look and Feel for Java Swing
desktop applications. It comes with more than 60 themes, scales on HiDPI
displays and runs on Java 8 or newer.
FlatLaf is already used in a lot of open-source and commercial applications. To
name only a few:
Apache NetBeans,
jclasslib,
KeyStore Explorer,
install4j,
DbVisualizer,
MagicPlot,
OWASP ZAP. Here is a
longer list.
Many, many thanks to the community. 🏆 🥇
🚀 Without your feedback, support, feature requests, bug reports
and pull requests, FlatLaf would not be there where it is now.
What's next? The development continues! Stay tuned... 😉
If you like FlatLaf, please give it a star @
GitHub. Thanks!
For more information and documentation visit
FlatLaf Home.
2021-02-26
FlatLaf, Swing, Look and Feel, HiDPI
Modern GUIs are becoming more and more minimalistic. Most controls (e.g. text
fields or buttons) nowadays use 1 pixel thin borders. Everybody is removing
borders from scroll and split panes. Even the split pane divider is often
reduced to 1 pixel (e.g. on Mac OS X since years or in current Mozilla
Thunderbird).
But how to create a 1 pixel thin divider with JSplitPane?
First idea was of course to invoke splitPane.setDividerSize(1)
.
This seems to work, but has the disadvantage that it is very hard for the user
to hit that single pixel line to move the divider. What we need is a
transparent divider that has an easy-to-hit
width (e.g. 9 pixels) and is placed between and over
the left and right split pane components.
Thanks to Swing's flexible design, it is relative easy to implement this.
First we set the divider size to 1 and let the split pane layout manager do
its work. The trick is now to override JSplitPane.layout()
and
modify the bounds of the divider (e.g. increase width and move left):
public class JSplitPaneWithZeroSizeDivider extends JSplitPane {
private int dividerDragSize = 9;
private int dividerDragOffset = 4;
public JSplitPaneWithZeroSizeDivider() {
setDividerSize( 1 );
setContinuousLayout( true );
}
@Override
public void layout() {
super.layout();
// increase divider width or height
BasicSplitPaneDivider divider = ((BasicSplitPaneUI)getUI()).getDivider();
Rectangle bounds = divider.getBounds();
if( orientation == HORIZONTAL_SPLIT ) {
bounds.x -= dividerDragOffset;
bounds.width = dividerDragSize;
} else {
bounds.y -= dividerDragOffset;
bounds.height = dividerDragSize;
}
divider.setBounds( bounds );
}
Then we need our own UI delegate that creates our divider.
@Override
public void updateUI() {
setUI( new SplitPaneWithZeroSizeDividerUI() );
revalidate();
}
private class SplitPaneWithZeroSizeDividerUI extends BasicSplitPaneUI {
@Override
public BasicSplitPaneDivider createDefaultDivider() {
return new ZeroSizeDivider( this );
}
}
And finally our divider, which draws the divider line and updates the drag
locations.
private class ZeroSizeDivider extends BasicSplitPaneDivider {
public ZeroSizeDivider( BasicSplitPaneUI ui ) {
super( ui );
super.setBorder( null );
setBackground( UIManager.getColor( "controlShadow" ) );
}
@Override
public void setBorder( Border border ) {
// ignore
}
@Override
public void paint( Graphics g ) {
g.setColor( getBackground() );
if( orientation == HORIZONTAL_SPLIT )
g.drawLine( dividerDragOffset, 0, dividerDragOffset, getHeight() - 1 );
else
g.drawLine( 0, dividerDragOffset, getWidth() - 1, dividerDragOffset );
}
@Override
protected void dragDividerTo( int location ) {
super.dragDividerTo( location + dividerDragOffset );
}
@Override
protected void finishDraggingTo( int location ) {
super.finishDraggingTo( location + dividerDragOffset );
}
}
}
That's it.
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Tested with Oracle/Sun Java 5, 6, and 7. Licensed under
BSD-2-Clause
with clause 2 removed.
2011-09-09
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Swing